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Course Instructor: David Gergen, 617-496-1982, [email protected] Faculty Assistant: Monet Banihashem, 617-496-0556, Monet _ [email protected] Research Assistant: Dan Katz, 617-872-5392, [email protected] Course Assistants: Amandla Ooko-Ombaka, [email protected] Justin Freeh, [email protected] Joshua Lipsky, [email protected] CLASS MEETINGS Class sessions are scheduled on Monday and Wednesday, from 4:10 to 5:30 PM in L-140. Class attendance is expected. There will be occasional meetings outside of the scheduled class time. COURSE OBJECTIVES No course could plausibly claim to create a leader on its own – and MLD 325 is no exception. The purpose of this course is to help you advance in your own leadership journey. Through lectures, readings, occasional film screenings, and outside speakers, the course is intended to illuminate the paths that others have taken by men and women in the past and to provide a spark for your own leadership development. We will also explore new ways of leading in today’s younger generation. AUDIENCE This course is intended for students interested in and committed to improving their leadership capacity. It is designed for a wide array of students – from those with little leadership experience to those who have led large teams, American to international, inside the Kennedy School and out. REGISTRATION INFORMATION Please note that enrollment will be limited. In the event that the course is oversubscribed, 84% of spaces will be reserved for HKS students and other spaces will be reserved for National Security Fellows and cross-registered students. HKS will conduct and post the results. Students interested in cross-registering should submit a 2 page application that consists of a single page explaining why the course is important to you and a one page resume. Please submit together as one word document (please do not submit pdf’s). The deadline to submit these materials is September 9th, 2013. E-mail to [email protected]

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As a cross-registrant, you will be sent a confirmation that we have received your application. For all students, there may be a short wait list. Audits will be permitted as long as there are available seats. EXPECTATIONS & ASSIGNMENTS Please note that readings will be extensive and students will be expected to have read them prior to class. Students will be required to write individual papers in mid-semester and to join with 23 other members of the class to write a final paper. Students will also be encouraged to speak up in class. GRADING Assignments will be allocated as follows: Mid-term paper 45% End paper 45% Class participation 10% In assigning a final grade, the instructor will be mindful of HKS grading guidelines. OFFICE HOURS Professor Gergen is periodically available for office appointments by contacting his research assistant, Dan Katz, at [email protected] COURSE MATERIALS Course readings will be distributed online through the KNet course page. Required books will be available at The Coop. Copies of all books will be placed on reserve in the HKS library. REQUIRED BOOKS --Aurelius, Marcus. Meditations. --Belmonte, Kevin. William Wilberforce: A Hero for Humanity. --Bennis, Warren. On Becoming a Leader. --Champy & Nohria, The Arc of Ambition. --Christensen, Clayton, How Will You Measure Your Life? --Colvin, Geoff. Talent Is Overrated. --Edmondson, Amy C. Teaming; How Organizations Learn, Innovate and Compete in the Knowledge Economy --Gardner, John. On Leadership. --Gilbert, Martin, Winston Churchill’s War Leadership --George, Bill. True North. --Gergen, David. Eyewitness to Power --McPhee, John. A Sense of Where You Are. 2

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--Noonan, Peggy. On Speaking Well --Sandberg, Sheryl, Lean In --Stengel, Richard, Mandela's Way: Lessons on Life, Love and Courage RECOMMENDED READING --Collins, Jim. Good to Great. --Covey, Stephen R. The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People.

ORDER OF CLASSES: Part 1: The Inner Journey Introduction to Leadership Forging Your Character Journey to Authenticity Discovering Your Inner Fire Honing Your Judgment Developing Your Talent Film Night: Amazing Grace Part 2: The Outer Journey Developing Your Empathy and Emotional Intelligence Winning Respect and Influence Learning to Lead Building and Motivating Teams (I) Building and Motivating Teams (II) Finding Your Voice (I) Finding Your Voice (II) Leading in a Crisis Women & Leadership (I) Women and Leadership (II) Leadership Styles in Other Cultures Making Diversity a Friend Building Your Career Principle vs Compromise The Dark Arts: Cunning & Intrigue Dangers of Derailment Growing from Adversity Leading an Integrated Life

PART I: THE INNER JOURNEY Fri, 9/6 - Introduction to Leadership

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Arthur Schlesinger Jr., The Cycles of American History, (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1999), “Democracy and Leadership,” pp. 419 – 436. Garry Wills, Certain Trumpets: The Nature of Leadership (Simon & Schuster, 1995), “Introduction,” pp. 11-22. John Gardner, On Leadership, (Simon and Schuster, 2013), “The Nature of Leadership,” pp. 110, “The Tasks of Leadership,” pp.11-22. Graham Allison and Robert D. Blackwill, Lee Kuan Yew: The Grand Master's Insights on China, the United States, and the World (The MIT Press, 2013), pp. 113-117, 145-149. Barbara Kellerman, The End of Leadership (HarperBusiness, 2012), pp. xiii-23. John Coleman, Passion & Purpose: Stories from the Best and Brightest Young Business Leaders (Harvard Business Review Press, 2011), “Convergence,” pp. 11-16. Mon 9/9 - Forging Your Character John Gardner, On Leadership (Free Press 1993), “The Moral Dimension”, pp. 67-80. Kathleen A. Reardon, Tests of a Leader, “Courage as a Skill”, Harvard Business Review, January 2007: pp. 23-38. Champy and Nohria, The Arc of Ambition (Basic Books, 2001), “Never Violate Values”, pp. 143162. James O’Toole, Leading Change (Ballantine Books, 1996), “The Rushmoreans,” pp. 19-36. Paul Tough, “The Character Test,” New York Times Magazine, Sept. 18, 2011.

Monday 9/11: Journey to Authenticity Bill George, True North, Introduction; Chapter 1, “The Journey to Authentic Leadership”, pp.326; Chapter 4, “Knowing Your Authentic Self”, pp. 67-83; Chapter 5, “Practicing Your Values and Principles”, pp. 85-102.

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Marcus Aurelius, Meditations (Penguin Books, 2005), Books II-VI, VIII, IX (pp. 11-74, 91121). William Deresiewicz, “Solitude and Leadership,” The American Scholar, Spring 2010. Peter Drucker, Management Challenges for the 21st Century, “Managing Oneself”, 1999, Harper Collins. Wed 9/16 - Discovering Your Inner Fire Robert Steven Kaplan, What You’re Really Meant to Do (Harvard Business Review Press, 2013), Chapter 1, “What You’re Really Meant to Do,” pp. 13-23; Chapter 3, “Finding your Passions,” pp. 61-82. Warren Bennis, On Becoming a Leader (Basic Books; Fourth Edition), 2009: Chapter 2, “Understanding the Basics”; Chapter 3, “Knowing Yourself”. James Champy & Nitin Nohria, The Arc of Ambition (Basic Books, 2009), “Ambition Is the Root of All Achievement,” pp. 3-22 Albert Schweitzer, Out of My Life and Thought (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009), “I Resolve to Become a Jungle Doctor”, pp. 81- 95.

Wed 9/18 - Honing Your Judgment Barbara Leaming, Jack Kennedy: The Education of a Statesman, W. W. Norton, 2006: pp. 938, 195-214. Sorensen, Theodore C. 2001. “Judgment and Responsibility: John F. Kennedy and the Cuban Missile Crisis.” In Presidential Judgment: Foreign Policy Decision Making in the White House. ed. Aaron Lobel. Hollis: Hollis Publishing Company, pp. 21-40. Howard Gardner, Five Minds for the Future, Harvard Business Review Press, 2009: “The Synthesizing Mind”, pp. 45-76.

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Warren Bennis & Noel Tichy, Making Judgment Calls, Harvard Business Review, October 1, 2007. Max Weber, “Politics as a Vocation” (excerpts), From Max Weber: Essays in Sociology, Oxford University Press, 1946, pp. 114-128. Mon 9/23 - Developing Your Talent Geoff Colvin, Talent Is Overrated, Penguin Group, 2008, pp. 1-16, 52-104. Malcolm Gladwell, Outliers: The Story of Success (Little, Brown & Company, 2008), Chapter 2, “The 10,000-Hour Rule”, pp. 35-50. John McPhee, A Sense of Where You Are (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1999), “Profile,” pp. 11-89. Dan Pink, Drive, Riverhead Books, 2009: “Mastery,” pp. 106-128.

Film Screening – “Amazing Grace” : Recommended reading in advance of film: Kevin Belmonte, William Wilberforce: A Hero for Humanity, pp. 15 – 151

II: THE OUTER JOURNEY Wed 9/25 -- Developing Your Empathy and Emotional Intelligence Warren Bennis, On Becoming a Leader, Chapter 4, “Knowing the World”; Chapter 8, “Getting People On Your Side”. Daniel Goleman, “What Makes a Leader,” Harvard Business Review, November-December, 1998. Daniel Goleman, Richard Boyatzis, and Annie McKee, “Primal Leadership: The Hidden Driver of Great Performance,” Harvard Business Review. December 1, 2001. Daniel Goleman, Social Intelligence (Bantam, 2007), Chapter 19 “Sweet Spot of Achievement,” pp. 267-284.

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Peter Salovey, Letter to Yale University on the occasion of his first day in office. Adam Grant, Give and Take (Viking, 2013), pp. 1-26. Monday 9/30 -- Winning Respect and Influence Amy J.C. Cuddy, Matthew Kohut, and John Neffinger, “Connect, Then Lead,” Harvard Business Review, July-August 2013. Susan Fiske, Amy J.C. Cuddy, and Peter Glick, Universal dimensions of social cognition: warmth and competence, Trends in Cognitive Sciences 11, no. 2 (February 2007), pp. 77–83. Sue Shellenbarger, “How 'Power Poses' Can Help Your Career,” Wall Street Journal, Aug 21, 2013. Betsy Myers, Take the Lead (Atria Books, 2011), “Respect,” pp. 71-87. Wednesday, 10/2 - Learning to Lead Michael Useem, Leading Up: How to Lead Your Boss so You Both Win (Crown Business,2003), pp. 1-40. John J. Gabarro and John P. Kotter. “Managing Your Boss.” HBR Classic. Harvard Business Review 83, no. 1 (January 2005). Richard Stengel, Mandela's Way (Crown Archetype, 2010), pp. 55-100.

Monday 10/7 - Building and Motivating Teams (I) General Stanley McChrystal, My Share of the Task (Portfolio Hardcover, 2013): Epilogue. Sim B. Sitkin and J. Richard Hackman, “Developing Team Leadership: An Interview with Coach Mike Krzyzewski,” Academy of Management Learning & Education, 2011, Vol. 10, No. 3, pp. 494-501. Mike Krzyzewski, Leading with the Heart (Hachette Book Group, 2000), pp. 19-34. Ruth Wageman and Debra A. Nunes, et al., Senior Leadership Teams: What It Takes to Make Them Great (Harvard Business School Press, 2008), “Preface”, pp. xi-xix., “The Fall of the Heroic CEO and the Rise of the Leadership Team”, pp. 1-23. 7

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Dan Pink, Drive (Riverhead Books, 2009), “Introduction” and “Chapter 1,” pp. 1-31.

Wed 10/9 -- Building and Motivating Teams (II) Amy C. Edmondson, Teaming; How Organizations Learn, Innovate and Compete in the Knowledge Economy (Harvard Business School Press, 2012), pp 1-80, pp 257-287 Faaiza Rashid, Amy C. Edmondson, and Herman B. Leonard, Leadership Lessons from the Chilean Mine Rescue, Harvard Business Review, July-August 2013. Liz Kowalczyk, “Hospitals size up the lessons of Marathon attacks,” Boston Globe, July 28, 2013. Mon 10/14 -- HKS Holiday Wed 10/16 - Finding Your Voice (I) Abraham Lincoln, The Gettysburg Address. Garry Wills, Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words that Remade America (Simon & Schuster, 2006), pp. TBD. Martin Luther King, Jr., I Have a Dream Address Taylor Branch, The King Years (Simon & Schuster, 2013), "The March on Washington, 1963), pp 59-68. Garry Wills, Certain Trumpets (Simon & Schuster, 1995), “The Rhetorical Leader: Martin Luther King, Jr.,” pp. 211-224.

Mon 10/21 - Finding Your Voice (II) Peggy Noonan, On Speaking Well", Harper Collins, 1998, "Introduction" and pp. 3-98. Jack Valenti, Speak Up With Confidence, “Introduction” and “The Beginning,” (Hyperion, 2002) pp. 1-15. David Gergen, Eyewitness to Power, “Reagan: Secrets of the Great Communicator”, pp. 210247. 8

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Ted Sorensen, Counselor (Harper, 2009), Chapter 12, “Speechwriting”, pp 130-142 and Chapter 18, “The President's Speeches”, pp. 215-227.

Wed 10/23 - Leading in a Crisis Jim Stockdale, Thoughts of a Philosophical Fighter Pilot (Hoover Institution Press, 1995), pp. 44-47. Martin Gilbert, Winston Churchill’s War Leadership (Vintage, 2004): pp 1-97 Anthony Storr, Churchill’s Black Dog, Kafka’s Mice, pp 3-51.

Mon 10/28 - Women and Leadership (I) David Gergen, Foreword to Enlightened Power: How Women Are Transforming the Practice of Leadership, pp. xv –xxix. Herminia Ibarra, Robin Ely, and Deborah Kolb, Women Rising: The Unseen Barriers, Harvard Business Review, September 2013. Women in the Workplace: A Research Round-up, Harvard Business Review, September 2013. Nannerl Keohane, “Crossing the Bridge: Reflections on Women and Leadership”, in Women and Leadership, Kellerman and Rhode ed. pp. 65-92. 2007. Ann Marie Slaughter, “Why Women Still Can’t Have It All,” Atlantic, June 2012. Wed 10/30 - Women and Leadership (II) Sheryl Sandberg, Lean In: Women, Work and the Will to Lead (Knopf, 2013), pp. 3-51, 77-139. Mon 11/4 - Leadership Styles in Other Cultures D. Quinn Mills, “Asian and American Leadership Styles: How Are They Unique?”, Harvard Business School Working Knowledge, 2005. “How Cultural Factors Affect Leadership”, Knowledge@Wharton, 1999.

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P. Christopher Earley and Elaine Mosakowski, “Cultural Intelligence”, Harvard Business Review, 2004. Robin J. Ely et al., “Rethinking Political Correctness”, Harvard Business Review, 2006. John Coleman et al., Passion & Purpose (Harvard Business Review Press, 2011), “Globalization” and “Bridging Two Worlds,” pp. 55-66.

Wed 11/6 - Making Diversity a Friend Readings TBD Mon 11/11 - HKS Holiday

Wed 11/13 – No Class

Mon 11/18- Principle vs Compromise Richard Stengel, Mandela's Way, "Have a Core Principle", pp. 101-114 Kristen Downey, The Woman Behind the New Deal: The Life and Legacy of Frances Perkins, pp. TBD. Walter Isaacson, Profiles in Leadership (W.W. Norton & Company, 2010): Introduction, pp. 1116; Hoover and Roosevelt, pp. 187-206. Goodwin, Doris Kearns, Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln (Simon & Schuster, 2005), pp. 686-696. Wed 11/20 – Building Your Career I (Bob Barnett) Doris Kearns Goodwin, Lyndon Johnson & The American Dream, (Harper & Row, 1967), pp. 72- 117. Saslow, Eli, “Rising Political Star Adopts Low Key Strategy” October 17, 2008, The Washington Post (on Senator Barack Obama). Jack Welch, Jack: Straight From the Gut, 2001, (Warner Business Books), pp. 3-61.

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Sheryl Sandberg, Lean In, "It's a Jungle Gym, Not a Ladder", pp. 52-63. Citrin, James M. and Richard A. Smith, The Five Patterns of Extraordinary Careers: The Guide for Achieving Success and Satisfaction, (New York: Three Rivers Press 2003), “Introduction: The Five Patterns of Extraordinary Careers,” pp. 1-13. Mon 11/25 – Building Your Career II (Harry Rhoads, Jr.) Doris Kearns Goodwin, Lyndon Johnson & The American Dream, (Harper & Row, 1967), pp. 72- 117. Saslow, Eli, “Rising Political Star Adopts Low Key Strategy” October 17, 2008, The Washington Post (on Senator Barack Obama). Jack Welch, Jack: Straight From the Gut, 2001, (Warner Business Books), pp. 3-61. Sheryl Sandberg, Lean In, "It's a Jungle Gym, Not a Ladder", pp. 52-63. Citrin, James M. and Richard A. Smith, The Five Patterns of Extraordinary Careers: The Guide for Achieving Success and Satisfaction, (New York: Three Rivers Press 2003), “Introduction: The Five Patterns of Extraordinary Careers,” pp. 1-13. Wed 11/27 - HKS Holiday Mon 12-2 – The Dark Arts: Cunning & Intrigue AND Dangers of Derailment Machiavelli, The Prince, “Dedication” and chapters XVI through XIX; XXIII. Richard Nixon, Leaders, “In The Arena: Reflections on Leadership”, 1982, pp. 320-345. David Gergen, Eyewitness to Power, Nixon, “Why He Fell”, pp. 65-104. Rod Kramer, “The Great Intimidators”, Harvard Business Review, February, 2006. --Bill George, True North, Chapter 2, “Why Leaders Lose Their Way”. Champy & Nohria, The Arc of Ambition, “Temper Ambition,” pp. 99-114. 11

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Michael Maccoby, “Narcissistic Leaders: The Incredible Pros, The Inevitable Cons,” Harvard Business Review on Leadership at the Top (Harvard Business School Press, 2003). Wed 12-4 - Growing from Adversity AND Leading an Integrated Life Ted Morgan, FDR: A biography (Simon and Schuster, 1985), Chapter 10: “The Stricken Prince.” Warren Bennis, Geeks & Geezers: Foreword by David Gergen; Chapter 1, “Leading and Learning for Lifetime”, pp. 1-21. Richard Stengel, Mandela's Way (Crown, 2010), p. 1-54, pp. 115-160, pp. 169-178. --Clayton Christensen, How Will You Measure Your Life? (HarperCollins Publishers, 2012). John Gardner, On Leadership, (Free Press, 1993), “Renewing”, pp. 121-137. Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People (Free Press, 2004), “Habit 7: Sharpen the Saw”, pp. 287-307. Bill George, True North, Chapter 8, “Staying Grounded: Integrating Your Life”. Milhaly Csikszenthmihalyi, Finding Flow: The Psychology of Engagement With Everyday Life (Basic Books, 1997), p. 17-34. Richard Stengel, Mandela's Way, pp. 179-224.

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